Godzilla:Reset chapter 1 (Revamp)

Hello my name is Mark, if you’ve stumbled upon this document then you’re a fan of the Nes Godzilla Creepypasta right? As an avid fan of Godzilla and internet horror stories Nes Godzilla was probably one of the most well crafted works of fiction I’ve ever experienced, in my opinion at least. I have a blog circling around the Story itself and from there I have a following of people that are just as involved in exploring the ideas behind the masterpiece as I am. But recently I’ve questioned the term fiction when studying this phenomenal piece of work, recently I had obtained the contact of Zachary from the very same guy who bought the actual haunted cartridge off of him. He discovered my blog and sent me a message telling me so. I had so many questions for the guy, because from what I remember he was playing the game and documenting it like Zachary. But he mysteriously dropped of the internet after his 6th entry. Before talking with Zachary I wanted to hear his experience, considering that this work of fiction may actually be real- I assumed maybe he was just a really talented artist who got bored of the work and never told anyone of his absence? But when I asked what was beyond the 6th chapter he never replied to me, I guessed he was busy so I didn’t bombard him. But little did I know that was the first warning sign of what I was getting myself into.

But at the time so many revelations were hitting me at once, I had no idea how to control myself. I was vastly excited in discovering more about Zachary and the fate of the cartridge then I was fearful of the great power the cartridge had, and what I knew it could do. I was reckless, and later on it would cost me greatly. But since you’re still reading you really want to know what I experienced, so there’s no going back from here. In no time at all I found Zachary’s social media address. For the sake of his privacy I’m not telling what website Zachary uses, from the looks of his page it was pretty barren, if I weren’t mistaken it had the shell of a bot account. When I messaged him I immediately opened up with the Creepypasta, and uproariously applauded his work. Socially that was a mistake on my part and still cringe up when I look back at the lengthy wall I sent him.. But surprisingly he replied to me not long after my introduction.

To make this simple, and somewhat unprofessional I’m going to describe our conversating in script format. I’ll just be including the points of interest made by Zachary.

Zachary: I’m flattered that you’ve dedicated so much of your time into reading my posts, but you should know everything I put out there was real. Also I might ask how did you find me?

Me: The previous owner of the game, he approached me on my blog and gave me your contact.

Zachary: I’m going to have a talk with him, but your persistence is something to be admired.

Me: So your experience is real?

Zachary: When I was still active I was conflicted with people denying my case being real. But if you haven’t already noticed, yes it is.

Me: Where’s the cartridge?

Zachary: That asshole sent it back to me. When I saw that thing looking back at me from my mailbox I didn’t hesitate to destroy it. But every attempt I made, the game came back. I swear I’m actually going insane, I just want it out of my life. I’d talk to a therapist or something but would they believe I’m being harassed by a cursed nintendo game?!

From there on I begged Zachary for the game, I remember at the end of his story he gave out a warning to anyone wants to get their hands on the game. But from the way he wrote I knew he was teetering off the edge of sanity. With every reply I made I had the slightest sinking feeling what I was doing was wrong by wanting the game in my hands. But my bullheaded pursuit of knowledge got the best of me. Within days I had the game, it was beat to hell, scratches cracks and burn marks covered it’s plastic surface- the sticker depicting Godzilla was barely recognizable to anyone who never saw the game’s exterior. But the interior was clean as a whistle. My TV was fairly new so I needed an adapter to hook up my old NES, but because it was newer it was much easier to take screenshots of the gameplay.

When I opened the game the only option was Reset, no password or load game to be seen. Funny considering in the previous run of this game one of the options were missing, but at this point it seems that the game was only fixated on starting anew with every soul awaiting damnation. I selected reset, and strangely i started off on Earth with the normal music, board and everything. Which was such step back given how strange and out of place the second run of the game was. I blew through the levels and fought Moguera and Gezora with no problem. When I progressed to mars I scrupulously looked over the board to see anything out of place. I looked over the boss monsters and I did see something new. In place of Gezora there was Matango, being the nerd I was instantly overcome with surprise! And anger. Matango was already in the game as a miniboss, and the fact that the obscure monster boss was replaced with an even more obscure monster made me boil. I had seriously doubts for the future of my experience, but that one change was evidence something was up with the game.

At that point I realized that I wasn’t even taking screencaps. I felt so dumb in the midst of my agitation I nearly punched my TV. But it was Ok, because as I progressed through one of the Dogora levels I encountered something else different. An Actual Dogora appeared in the level to fight me.

I was playing Godzilla at the time and I scoffed at how small it was compared to the Dogora in the original movie. But none the less it was nice to see another freakishly well made sprite in this “haunted game.” The Dogora functioned like the flying spaghetti fuckers prevalent in this level that were basically invincible to your melee attacks unless you used the heat beam. It did have a laser attack but I wasn’t able to capture it, right here you can see me about to wreck Dogora’s shit. It would’ve been annoying if more appeared because during the fight some of the stage enemies still fluttered and gracefully bombarded into Godzilla.

First monster up was Varan. I was already so far ahead as Godzilla I completely forgot about Mothra. Unlike Zachary I actually had fun playing as her when I used to play this game from online emulators. When I entered Varan’s arena he looked and fought differently. Sadly he wasn’t my missile spewing centaur. Instead he was accurately colored, and he glided around too like in his movie appearances. Seeing there wasn’t anything too weird I only took one screencap

of the bugger flying around. It would’ve been fun of The original NES Godzilla utilized more material from the movies Toho included in the game. So this game was just above the margin of tolerability for me to play and not get bored out of my mind. Overall he was fun to fight. He’d ground himself only when he took enough damage. It seemed the more I pummeled Varan the weaker he got and the slower his attacks became. It was oddly satisfying to beat him into the ground, the fight only took two rounds.

I was about to head over to moguera pumped up on adrenaline, but then I remembered Matango. I decided I’d fight with Mothra. Since he was the substitute for Gezora I figured he’d be easy considering how quickly I used to smash Gezora with Mothra in previous plays of the game. But Matango was a challenge in itself. He was slow and attacked with a punch and a kick while shooting small projectiles in a quick succession. But that obviously wasn’t the challenge.

.When when he lost a bar of health he’d screech and summon some matango spawn. Which was incredibly annoying given Low level Mothra had trouble killing matango spawn with her eye tomatos alone. BigDaddyTango would sit there and blast Mothra with his spores knowing I’d be busy fighting his kids. But when I killed them off he was almost completely helpless to my poison powder. With Matango out of the way Moguera was the only one left.

I remember from the actual game there was a chance the last monster on the board would flee if you didn’t kill him quick enough. Moguera being one of them.. I entered with Godzilla and I started writhing in my seat to see that it was Heisei Moguera instead of showa Moguera. I was excited to engage but also terrified, being a fan of the Atari fighting games too I knew how many ridiculous attacks Moguera had. But I also remembered he had to manually regenerate energy instead of passively regaining it like every other monster. Moguera’s would charge with his drills, shoot eye beams and missiles. I know I’m level four in the one screencap I took, so I’m certain anyone who read the original story has heard the line “I only took one screencap because I had to focus.” I think we should admit as a species we’re just bad at taking screencaps while playing videogames.

With a few more rounds with some help from Mothra Moguera took his beating like a man and didn’t flee. rewarding my monsters with experience. I decided from there I’d trudge over to the base icon, but when Mothra touched it both of my monsters were transported to the next world. My views on the seemingly lackluster legendary game had a turn for the better when I saw the preview for the next world.